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Happy Valentine’s Day! Since today’s the day of love and romance, I figured we would talk about the ever important bling! The engagement ring is the item that everyone oooh and aaahs over once you’re newly engaged! The sparkly diamond on that ever important finger. Every bride-to-be has heard of the 4 Cs of diamonds, and if you have ever stepped foot in a jewelry store like Robbins Brothers, you likely had a mini-course on diamonds and how Cut, Clarity, Carat, and Color affect the price and beauty of a diamond.

And if you’re like me… you forgot what all that means!! So, for all the single or newly engaged girls, I found this fun little infographic to explain it all to us. Infographics make it so much easier to understand data….. so here’s a little chart that should make shopping for an engagement ring easier!

It also gives some fun little known stats like I really had no idea that the most popular shape was the round cut (I have a princess cut diamond!)

Here is the full infographic:

I love how at the end the graphic also gives you a great idea on how to shop for a ring (grooms!) and how to set aside a budget for a ring. Most surprising is I don’t think many Tacori rings fall into many of these “How much to spend based on your income”, but hey, a girl can dream! My advice: don’t completely rule out the smaller jewelry stores. My ring was not bought at a chain store, but at a smaller boutique a friend recommended to us, and my ring gets compliments all the time!!

What were the most important factors in choosing an engagement ring? Did you get to help your fiance with the ring?

Is this not the cutest thing ever! I just saw it on Green Wedding Shoes and am in love. This couple is local–right from Huntington Beach. Brandon Kidd shot their photos in San Juan Capistrano, not far at all!

Great engagement photos

Love this swing

So I really love how much thought this couple put into their photos! ❤ Major inspiration for anyone shooting there’s. I think the beach is way overrated for photos.

Like this:

A few weekends ago, I finally decided to venture out to buy wedding shoes. I spent a lot of time at Nordstrom, Bebe & Aldo… and I found cute shoes but came home with three pairs of shoes that were all not for my wedding. Woopsies.

I bought a pair of Jimmy Choo’s at Nordstrom’s last weekend for the 2nd event (for the white dress) keeping my finger’s crossed that they might go with the first dress too, but sadly they don’t! I chose these Choo’s (the Isabele’s) because the heels were just 2 1/2 inches (great for dancing!) and they were comfy yet also flashy. In love!

I haven’t tried them on with the dress yet as it’s at my MIL’s house, so if those don’t work out, I might get these super cute Badgley Mishka’s in white (or in gold for the first wedding event):

Badgley Mishka "Lacie" pump

In my shoe shopping for the first wedding event…in which essentially the only walking I’ll be doing is down the aisle to my husband-to-be, I can go with higher heels and not have to worry about comfort as much as I have to do with the 2nd event.

For the Pakistani Wedding, I want something with gold embellishments that’s a little bit fun. I saw these because I love the lace-up backs, but I’m not too sure they will work:

At $89.95, I really cannot complain. The heels are 4″ PLUS a 1″ platform so maybe the 5″ total is a big ambitious for a bride wearing tons of heaving clothes on her wedding to balance in. Super cute though, what do we think?

My ideal shoe is this Ivanka Trump creation... if it came in gold. I love these shoes because the stones make em pop more. (They also come in black!!)

Ivanka Trump "Alluvia"

In LOVE! The black ones are even more cute!!

Now for a lust-list (like if Nordstrom’s carried these I would buy them for the day and then return them!!)

Valentino pumps

These Christian Louboutain Balota shoes… strappy, gold, and everything I’d love for the first event (but at $1095 far, far from budget!!)